Google wants to tighten reins Nexus line

- Google wants more control over the Nexus smartphones and tablets. Google now lets make the devices by different hardware vendors who then also allowed to print their company name. According to sources of The Information is ended soon.

Google's plans are bad for the already very good running HTC. The Taiwanese smartphone maker was in talks with Google to create the next generation Nexus smartphones. It had the declining sales of HTC must boost, but now it seems that opportunity lost.

It is still an option for HTC to refocus on the production of electronics for other companies. In that case, it might still mean something to Google. In the past, HTC made all devices include HP and Palm.